Read a National Geographic magazine article about how flowering plants appeared during the Cretaceous period and get ...

Flowers play an essential role in maintaining a species' genetic stability. Understanding how flowers regulate water use strategies to adapt to their environment is crucial for better understanding ...

For decades, scientists have relied on tree rings to estimate how long trees can live. But new research suggests that this widely used method may have been underestimating the lifespan of many ...

Most of our food is from angiosperms, while more than 90% of angiosperms require insect pollination - making this pollination method hugely important. Nevertheless, scientists have long been unclear ...

The world's tallest angiosperm (flowering plant) is a specimen of yellow meranti (Shorea faguetiana) located in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, which on 6 January 2019 was climbed by Unding Jami of the ...

Flowering plants may have evolved 250 million years ago, more than 100 million years earlier than the oldest fossilised flowers so far found. Today, flowering plants – known as angiosperms – are the ...

If you looked up 66 million years ago you might have seen, for a split second, a bright light as a mountain-sized asteroid burned through the atmosphere and smashed into Earth. It was springtime and ...

The earliest angiosperm (flowering plant) currently known to science is Florigerminis jurassica ("Jurassic flower bud"), which dates back 164 million years, to the Jurassic period. The new species ...